Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...incident in the life of this lady of acknowledged charm has on many an occasion risen to the rank of highest artistic achievement. In 1921, for example, she played all of Beethoven's 32 sonatas in a series of eight concerts, a feat which she alone of women has performed. As an artist she had perfect training, having studied under Jedliczka, Reimann, Boise; at her debut in 1905 all the critics guessed safely with the Boston Herald: "Here is a woman with emotions and with a soul ... a brilliant future"; as a performer she has never had the ecstatic devotion...
...first time in the history of musical criticism in the United States that a concert artist of Mme. Samaroff's rank and distinction has undertaken such work. As a rule, a successful concert career precludes the possibility of such an undertaking; and but for an accident Mme. Samaroff's many concert engagements would have taken her as far as the Pacific Coast during the next few months...
...rank of Lieutenant Commander, U. S. N., died last week in Washington. Most of his paintings are unsalable because they are plastered to public buildings or warships, but even were they salable there would be no fluttering of art dealers excited by unspeakable profits. For Reuterdahl was not an artist; he was a craftsman; his craft, the faultless delineation of a ship. Not for him was the cloudy, light-streaked glory of Turner's seas; not for him the salty terror of Winslow Homer's rockbound coast; Reuterdahl never played ghost with John Masefield's Wanderer; Reuterdahl...
Died. Henry Reuterdahl, 54, naval artist; at St. Elizabeth's Government Hospital for the Insane, Washington...
...artist whose one-man show was thus fashionably attended is perhaps best known as Dancer Paul Swan. Born in Springfield,Ill., he has achieved distinction in the U. S. and Europe as a versatile and talented exponent of the dance as well as the graphic and plastic arts...